Re: 'core-updates' spring 2018

2018-03-29 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Ricardo Wurmus skribis: >> Since it's fairly late in the core-updates cycle, I think it would be >> better to try restoring the prlimit64 fallback on the "rhel6" branch and >> then revisit this during the next core-updates. > > I’m not too happy with this, because the longer we delay this

Re: 'core-updates' spring 2018

2018-03-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Gábor, > We already talked about this on #guix, and the patch removing code to > check for prlimit64 not implemented is a quite self contained commit on > the glibc tree. It is not a trivial one, and I did not try to revert that > yet, but > it might worth looking at. I would appreciate this

Re: 'core-updates' spring 2018

2018-03-28 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Marius, > Are you sure prlimit64 is the only syscall that needs to be adjusted? A > quick grep through through the commit log reveals some other interfaces > that may need to be restored. I’m not sure, but I looked at the RHEL6 kernel’s syscall table: curl http://vault.centos.org/6.9/o

Re: 'core-updates' spring 2018

2018-03-27 Thread Mark H Weaver
Marius Bakke writes: > 'core-updates' has seen a lot of changes recently. Some of the goodies > include HTTP/2 support in curl, binutils 2.30, glibc 2.27, reproducible > Python bytecode, gnu-build-system will automatically run 'autoreconf' if > necessary, warnings will be issued about snippets a

Re: 'core-updates' spring 2018

2018-03-27 Thread Marius Bakke
Ricardo Wurmus writes: > Hi Marius, > >> 'core-updates' has seen a lot of changes recently. Some of the goodies >> include […] glibc 2.27 […] >> >> Are there other things that should go in? > > I would really like to see a patch applied to glibc that ensures that > the “prlimit64” syscall is not

Re: 'core-updates' spring 2018

2018-03-27 Thread Gábor Boskovits
2018-03-26 20:34 GMT+02:00 Ricardo Wurmus : > > Hi Marius, > > > 'core-updates' has seen a lot of changes recently. Some of the goodies > > include […] glibc 2.27 […] > > > > Are there other things that should go in? > > I would really like to see a patch applied to glibc that ensures that > the

Re: 'core-updates' spring 2018

2018-03-26 Thread Ricardo Wurmus
Hi Marius, > 'core-updates' has seen a lot of changes recently. Some of the goodies > include […] glibc 2.27 […] > > Are there other things that should go in? I would really like to see a patch applied to glibc that ensures that the “prlimit64” syscall is not used when running on the RHEL 6 ker

Re: 'core-updates' spring 2018

2018-03-26 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello! Marius Bakke skribis: > 'core-updates' has seen a lot of changes recently. Some of the goodies > include HTTP/2 support in curl, binutils 2.30, glibc 2.27, reproducible > Python bytecode, gnu-build-system will automatically run 'autoreconf' if > necessary, warnings will be issued about s

'core-updates' spring 2018

2018-03-26 Thread Marius Bakke
Guix, 'core-updates' has seen a lot of changes recently. Some of the goodies include HTTP/2 support in curl, binutils 2.30, glibc 2.27, reproducible Python bytecode, gnu-build-system will automatically run 'autoreconf' if necessary, warnings will be issued about snippets and phases not returning